Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-01-31 | Page 4 | Brady Friends Deny He's Losing Mental Power

i t 1 bENT Hf'S HES l LOSING SING i F r Al State Offers Rebuttal in Murder of Girl Stenographer Ste Ste- I It AUSTIN AUSTI- Tex Jan 31 1 AP AP By By t he e t testimony of oC his friends of or man many years years' ears ears' the I Plato tato attempted attempt- attempt id ed d' d to tol today that John W. W Brady former civil chU appeals court f lj judge e. dge char charged ll with killing MISS 11 8 stenographer as cis is sane J pr Dr Eugene C. C Barker cr University filly sity Of ot Texas rexa profs prof's professor or and historian lila his torian a t. t re rebuttal witness for fOl the Die state testified d that in th the course le of 1 fraternal meetings at the Town To To and nd Gown club In Austin AusLin he had his d Brad Brady quote It learned arned Latin l m nr s and hail hal s soon en nothing to ako him Bra Brady was nas ln In- In a iane Rane SEEKS SEEKS TO PROVE INSANITY feThe The defense has sought to prove prO that the 69 year old larold former ormer Jurist iad ad become Insane as a a. re result n of I heavy y a drinking drinking- when he fatally stabbed the he 28 year old stenographer stenographer stenographer pher on tho night of November r 0 rat fast Brady had llad maintained an in in- in relationship with the young oung woman for fot several se years year Further testimony developed that at ata aia a meeting of the Town and Gown club an exclusive organization for or members of ot the University of or Texas faculty and distinguished hc 1 residents of If Austin on the tho Thursday night before the slaying Brady had participated participated par par- In a round table foil s on the history of American expansion Did you ou see an any thin thing to Indi indi- indicate In Indicate l. l cate Brady was i insane asked District Attorney Henry Brooks Nothing Barker replied TALK CALLED COHERENT fc Dr Beverly everly e rb Boyd Episcopal rector rector rector rec rec- tor here said he lived next nest door to the tho Brad Brady home and the defendant defendants defendant's defendants defendant's defend defend- ants ant's conversation con way was coherent jkR B. B I L. L Batts regent of or Texas university uni v and former United States circuit judge testified he ho bel believed d Brad Brady had the same capacity for determining right from wrong as asan an any other sane man ratan Ireland Graves former district Judge and andt W. W A A. Keeling former Texas Te attorney general testified they believed the defendant was sane Judge Oclo Ocle Speer of the state stale supreme su supreme su- su preme commission of oC appeals said that Miss HIghsmith was a stenographer stenographer for the commission slon and that It was his recollection that Drad Brady recommended her for or employment